Capitalism
• Platforms

References for Theme: Platforms

• Altenried, Moritz
• "The platform as factory: Crowdwork and the hidden labour behind artificial intelligence" (2020)

• Baldwin, Carliss Y; Woodard, C Jason
• "The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View" (2009)

• Bearson, Dafna; Kenney, Martin; Zysman, John
• "Measuring the Impacts of Labor in the Platform Economy: New Work Created, Old Work Reorganized, and Value Creation Reconfigured" (2019)

• Berman, B J
• "Artificial intelligence and the ideology of capitalist reconstruction" (1992)

• Boyer, Robert
• "Platform capitalism: a socio-economic analysis" (2021)

• Casilli, Antonio
• "Digital Labor Studies Go Global: Toward a Digital Decolonial Turn" (2017)

• Casilli, Antonio; Posada, Julian
• "The Platformization of Society" (2019)

• "The platformization of labor and society" (2019)

  (p.3) Although platforms are grounded in digital technology, they primarily emerge as a response to long-term social and economic developments, particularly the diminishing relevance and efficiency of enterprises and markets, two traditional methods for organizing human productive activities.

• "The platformization of labor and society" (2019)

• Chen, M Keith; Chevalier, Judith A; Rossi, Peter E; Oehlsen, Emily
• "The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers" (2019)

• Codagnone, Cristiano; Abadie, Fabienne; Biagi, Federico
• "The future of work in the ‘sharing economy’. Market efficiency and equitable opportunities or unfair precarisation?" (2016)

  (p.55) The enactment of some form of regulation to establish the proposed portability of benefits would already represent a positive step forward to ensure more dignified conditions for workers in digital labour markets; various analysts, however, consider it insufficient in view of the facts that earnings are at times too low in the absence of any minimum wage rules, the flow of work is unstable and no employment benefits exists, there are clear information and power asymmetries, no protection against privacy violations, and various forms of information or reputation-based ethnic and gender discriminatory mechanisms occur unregulated.

• Codagnone, Cristiano; Biagi, Federico; Abadie, Fabienne
• "The passions and the interests: Unpacking the'sharing economy'" (2016)

• Crain, Marion; Poster, Winifred; Cherry, Miriam
• Invisible Labor: Hidden Work in the Contemporary World (2016)

• Duffy, Brooke Erin; Schwartz, Becca
• "Digital “women’s work?”: Job recruitment ads and the feminization of social media employment" (2018)

• Fagioli, Andrea
• "To exploit and dispossess: The twofold logic of platform capitalism" (2021)

• Feldman, Lindsey Raisa
• "Anti-heroes, wildfire, and the complex visibility of prison labor" (2020)

• Gregg, Melissa; Andrijasevic, Rutvica
• "Virtually Absent: The Gendered Histories and Economies of Digital Labour" (2019)

• Howcroft, Debra; Bergvall-Kåreborn, Birgitta
• "A Typology of Crowdwork Platforms" (2019)

• Jones, Phil
• Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism (2021)

• Kougiannou, Nadia K; Mendonça, Pedro
• "Breaking the managerial silencing of worker voice in platform capitalism: The rise of a food courier network" (2021)

• Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili
• "Online labour index: Measuring the online gig economy for policy and research" (2018)

• Menegus, Bryan
• "On Amazon’s Time" (2018)

• Merkel, Janet
• "‘Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets" (2019)

• Moore, Phoebe V
• "Future of Work: Technological Change and Women's Rights" (2019)

• "Agility of Affect in the Quantified Workplace" (2021)

• Morgan, George; Nelligan, Pariece
• The Creativity Hoax: Precarious Work in the Gig Economy (2018)

• Otis, Eileen; Wu, Tongyu
• "The Deficient Worker: Skills, Identity, and Inequality in Service Employment" (2018)

• Papadimitropoulos, Evangelos
• "Platform Capitalism, Platform Cooperativism, and the Commons" (2021)

• Pasquale, Frank
• "Two narratives of platform capitalism" (2016)

• Polkowska, Dominika
• "Unionisation and mobilisation within platform work: towards precarisation—a case of Uber drivers in Poland" (2021)

• Poutanen, Seppo; Kovalainen, Anne; Rouvinen, Petri
• Digital Work in the Platform Economy (2019)

• Rosenblat, Alex; Stark, Luke
• "Algorithmic labor and information asymmetries: A case study of Uber’s drivers" (2016)

• Schmidt, Florian A
• "Digital labour markets in the platform economy" (2017)

• Schor, Juliet B; Attwood-Charles, William; Cansoy, Mehmet; Ladegaard, Isak; Wengronowitz, Robert
• "Dependence and precarity in the platform economy" (2020)

• Scroggins, Michael J; Pasquetto, Irene V
• "Labor out of place: On the varieties and valences of (in) visible labor in data-intensive science" (2020)

• Surie, Aditi; Koduganti, Jyothi
• "The Emerging Nature of Work in Platform Economy Companies in Bengaluru, India: The Case of Uber and Ola Cab Drivers" (2016)

• Tiziano Bonini; Alessandro Gandini
• "Invisible, solidary, unbranded and passionate: everyday life as a freelance and precarious worker in four Italian radio stations" (2016)

• Vallas, Steven; Schor, Juliet B
• "What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy" (2020)

  (p.687) Originally considered a curious novelty, labor platforms have now established themselves as important players in domestic and, increasingly, global labor markets. Scholars have produced several insightful theorizations of them. We identified four controlling images in the literature; however, each has weaknesses. We have added a fifth, which contends that from the point of view of labor and the future of work, platforms should be thought of as a new economic form, distinct from markets, firms, and networks. 

• "What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy" (2020)

• Veen, Alex; Barratt, Tom; Goods, Caleb
• "Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia" (2019)

• Wood, Alex J; Graham, Mark; Lehdonvirta, Vili; Hjorth, Isis
• "Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy" (2019)

  (p.64) A far more effective means of control was the ‘algorithmic management’ enabled by platform-based rating and reputation systems (Lee et al., 2015; Rosenblat and Stark, 2016). Workers were rated by their clients following the completion of tasks. Workers with the best scores and the most experience tended to receive more work due to clients’ preferences and the platforms’ algorithmic ranking of workers within search results. This form of control was very effective, as informants stressed the importance of maintaining a high average rating and good accuracy scores. Whereas Uber’s algorithmic management ‘deactivates’ (dismisses) workers with ratings deemed low (Rosenblat and...

• "Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy" (2019)

• "Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy" (2019)

• Wood, Alex J; Lehdonvirta, Vili; Graham, Mark
• "Workers of the Internet unite? Online freelancer organisation among remote gig economy workers in six Asian and African countries" (2018)

• Woodcock, Jamie; Graham, Mark
• The Gig Economy (2019)

• van Dijck, José; Poell, Thomas; de Waal, Martijn
• The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World (2018)

• Švarc, Jadranka; Dabić, Marina
• "The digitalisation of work: Which way forward?" (2021)